Category Archives: Technology

QR in the New Year?

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Shelley Bernstein

A while back, I reported that we were in the process of a trial period with QR codes.  We’ve just taken a look at the stats, so I’m giving a run down of what we’ve seen.  If I asked the … Continue reading…

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In the Gallery vs. Online: How a Split Second Can Differ

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

One of the questions people always ask me is how web differs from what happens in the building and that’s a difficult thing to get metrics on.  With Split Second, we are in a unique position to answer that question … Continue reading…

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Split Second: A Curator’s Reaction to the Results

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Joan Cummins

I’ve had a lot of time to mull over the results of the Split Second, so here are a few of my thoughts—roughly one week before the Split Second exhibition closes. Please bear in mind that I don’t bring any … Continue reading…

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Split Second: Why Indian Paintings?

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Joan Cummins

I am listed as a contributor to the Split Second project, but I really wasn’t the brains behind it; I’m just the person who okayed the use of Indian paintings and then wrote the accompanying labels.  Think of me as … Continue reading…

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Split Second Stats #7: Contentiousness

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Beau Sievers

A big part of experiencing art is talking about it. Sometimes (or, uh, frequently) artworks are successful because they provoke disagreement, and along with that disagreement, some good conversation. Because the participants in the Split Second online experiment weren’t communicating … Continue reading…

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Proving a Point with Google Images

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

When most of us think about the roaring twenties, we envision scenes of flappers cutting loose on the dance floor, bustling cities filling with new cars and buildings scraping the sky, Prohibition and citizens fighting for their rights.  Right?  Well, … Continue reading…

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Split Second Stats #6: Subconscious Effects

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Beau Sievers

In the previous post I closed by noting that depending on what participants were asked to do, visual complexity could affect their ratings. Indeed, we found that the effect of complexity changed depending on the task completed before providing a … Continue reading…

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Split Second Stats #5: Complexity

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Beau Sievers

Complexity is an important factor in the evaluation of art. In all of the previous Split Second blog posts I’ve talked about how the complexity of artworks dramatically affected participants’ reactions. But I never explained what, exactly, was meant by … Continue reading…

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Give a Flower, Share Your Experience

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

As Eugenie noted in her post, The Moving Garden is installed in our Rubin Pavilion and the artist invites the visitor to take a flower from the installation on the condition that the person takes a detour on the way … Continue reading…

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QR Code Conundrum

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

I’ve long been a critic of QR Codes.  When I look around, I see low adoption rates, technical hurdles for end users and some really annoying uses in the marketing sector—who wants that? As critical as I am, there have … Continue reading…

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The Avatar and the iPad: Lessons Learned

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

As Jenny mentioned in her previous post, we had an interactive running on a series of iPads in Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue Skinned Savior and now that the exhibition has closed, it’s time to share our evaluation of the project. We were … Continue reading…

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Split Second Stats #4: Engagement

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Beau Sievers

In previous Split Second blog posts, we looked at the effects of thin-slicing, textual information, and gender. Put another way, we were studying the effects of how long you look at the art, what sort of accompanying text there is, … Continue reading…

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How has your culture shaped your life and accomplishments?

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Lisa Small

All eyes will be on you this fall when you enter the Great Hall and encounter the twenty-five massive photographic portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders that comprise The Latino List. Those of you who remember his incredibly popular and thought-provoking 2008 … Continue reading…

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

An interesting post popped up at ReadWriteWeb yesterday that evaluates our social media efforts across platforms—the author questions if we are spread too thin and in my response you’ll find me making a passionate argument about the choices we’ve made. The post does … Continue reading…

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Split Second Stats #3: Gender and Information

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Beau Sievers

In the last blog post about Split Second, I talked about how adding extra information about a work changed what people thought about it. In general, adding information about a work causes ratings to increase. However, this isn’t the whole … Continue reading…

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